CURRICULUM VITAE. James C. Risser Department of Philosophy Seattle University th Ave., Seattle, WA (206) /

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE James C. Risser Department of Philosophy Seattle University th Ave., Seattle, WA (206) / EDUCATION Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA: M.A. in Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach, CA: B.A. in Philosophy, TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, Director, University Honors Program, ; Acting Director, Director, Graduate Philosophy Program (Planning Phase), Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair of Humanities, Chair, Philosophy Department, ; Acting Chair, Spring 2004 Professor of Philosophy, 1996-present Associate Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Courses taught: Introduction to Philosophy; Philosophy of the Person; Logic; Ethics; Ancient Philosophy (Honors Program);19th Century Philosophy (Honors Program); 20th Century Philosophy (Honors Program); Perspectives: Person (Matteo Ricci); Existentialism; Phenomenology; Contemporary Philosophy; Hermeneutics; Cultural Aesthetics; Philosophy of Literature; Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of Art; Philosophy of Literature; Philosophy of Language; Greek Experience-Plato/Aristotle; Major Figure-Kant; Major Figure-Hegel; Major Figure-Gadamer; Major Figure-Later Heidegger; Major figure-arendt; Life and Death; Virtues in Contemporary Life; Friendship and Community; Inquiry Seminar/Humanities (Core); Interpretation and Culture (Matteo Ricci); Hermeneutics (Graduate Psychology Program). Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy PUBLICATIONS A. Books The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012). (Edited) American Continental Philosophy. Edited by Walter Brogan and James Risser. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000). (Edited) Heidegger Toward the Turn: The Work of the 1930s. Edited by James Risser. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999).

2 JAMES C. RISSER 2 PUBLICATIONS (cont.) Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Hans-Georg Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997). Truth and Aesthetic Experience in Kant's Critique of Judgement. Ph.D. Dissertation. (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1978). B. Journals Co-Editor, Philosophy Today, vol. 52 (2008). Supplement Issue: The Expanding Horizons of Continental Philosophy. Selected Papers from The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Co-Editor, Philosophy Today, vol. 51 (2007). Supplement Issue: Refiguring Continental Philosophy. Selected Papers from The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Co-Editor, Philosophy Today, vol. 50 (2006). Supplement Issue: Dispossessions and Discordance. Selected Papers from The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Guest Editor, Continental Philosophy Review, vol 33, No. 3 (2000). Special Issue: Hans-Georg Gadamer Centennial Celebration. Guest Editor, Research in Phenomenology, vol. 29 (1999). Topic: The Claims of History. Guest Editor, Research in Phenomenology, vol. 26 (1996). Topic: Reason and Community. C. Articles Language and Poetic Word in Gadamer s Hermeneutics, in Philosophy and Poetry: A Continental Perspective, ed. Ranjan Ghosh (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming, 2018). Ethical Hermeneutics. Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol (Fall 2017): Hermeneutic Considerations for Understanding Music, in International Yearbook for Hermeneutics 16, ed. Günter Figal (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2017), A (New) Paradigm for Hermeneutics. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 42, 1-2 (2015): 49-61, publication date The Art of the Example in Plato s Statesman, in Plato s Statesman : Dialectic, Myth, and Politics, ed. John Sallis (Albany: SUNY Press, 2017), Sensible Humanism, in International Yearbook for Hermeneutics 15, ed. Günter Figal (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2016), Language and Alterity, in Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics, eds. Niall Keane and Chris Lawn (New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2016), The Ethics (Ethos) of History. Philosophical investigations, vol. 9 (2015): , publication date Historicity as Effective History. Danish Yearbook for Philosophy, vol. 48 (2013): , publication date Locating Shared Life in the Thou : Historical and Thematic Considerations, in The Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the 'We', eds. Thomas Szanto and Dermot Moran (New York: Routledge, 2016), Sensible Knowing in Kant s Aesthetics, in Proceedings for the European Society for Aesthetics, vol. 7 (2015): The Place of Imagination in Philosophical Hermeneutics, in International Yearbook for Hermeneutics 14, ed. Günter Figal (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2015),

3 JAMES C. RISSER 3 PUBLICATIONS (cont.) On Mimesis and the Imaginary, in On the True Sense of Art: A Critical Companion to Transfigurements of John Sallis, eds. Jason Wirth et. al. (Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 2015), Dialogue/Conversation, in The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, eds. Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmut Gander (New York: Routledge, 2014), Hermeneutics and the Linguisticality of the Christian Word, in Hermeneutics Between Faith and Reason, eds. Gert-Jan van der Heiden and Philippe Van Haute (Nijmegen, 2014), The Humanities as the Art of Imagination. Voyages 3 (2014) [ A Response to My Commentators. Philosophy Today, vol 58:1 (Winter 2014): On The Threefold Sense of Mimesis in Plato s Republic. Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 17, 2 (Spring 2013): Plato s Paradigm for Hermeneutics, in Internationale Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik 11, ed. Günter Figal (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2012), On Freedom in Another Sense. Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 17, 1 (Fall 2012): Finding the Measure of Reason in Gadamer s (Platonic) Hermeneutics, in Hermeneutic Rationality, eds. Maria Luísa Portocarrero, et. al. (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012), Shared Life reprinted in Cultural Politics and Identity, eds. Barbara Weber, et. al. (Berlin LIT Verlag, 2011), Where Do We Find Words for What We Cannot Say?: Language and Experience in the Understanding of Life, in Gadamer s Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation, ed. Andrzej Wierciski (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011), The Lateness of Arrival in the Event of Understanding, in Internationale Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik 2010, ed. Günter Figal (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2011), Hermeneutic Experience and the Demands of Interpretation: On Beginnings, in Gegenständlichkeit und Objektivität, ed. Friederike Rese, David Espinet and Michael Steinmann (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2011), On the Hermeneutics of Hermeneutic Phenomenology, in Internationale Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik 2009, ed. Günter Figal (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2010), Philosophy and Politics at the End of Metaphysics, in Between Nihilism and Politics: The Hermeneutics of Gianni Vattimo, ed. Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010), Gadamer s Hidden Doctrine: On the Simplicity and Humility of Philosophy, in Consequences of Hermeneutics, ed. Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2010), The Demand of Freedom in Kant s Critique of Judgment. Comparative and Continental Philosophy, vol. 1 (2009): Ideality, Memory and the Written Word, in Internationale Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik 2008, ed. Günter Figal (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2009), Discourse, Dialectic, and the Art of Weaving. Epoche: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 13, 2 (Spring 2009): The Incapacity of Language. The Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 40 (2009): Saying and Hearing the Word: Language and the Experience of Meaning in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, vol. 30, 2 (2007):

4 JAMES C. RISSER 4 PUBLICATIONS (cont.) Minnets gemenskap I Gadamer s hermeneutik, in Det främmande I det egna, ed. Jonna Bernemark (Huddinge: Södertörn Philosophical Studies 4, 2007), On the Continuation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics as Convalescence, in Weakening Philosophy: Festschrift in Honor of Gianni Vattimo, ed. Santiago Zabala (Montreal: McGill- Queen s University Press, 2006), ; Spanish edition: Sobre la continuación de la filosofía: la hermenéutica como convalecencia, trans. Francisco Javier Martínez Contreras, in Debilitando la filosofía, ed. Santiago Zabala (Barcelona: Anthropos Editorial, 2009), Destruktion, Überlieferung and the Originary : Hermeneutics Between Heidegger and Gadamer (II), in The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski (Toronto: Hermeneutics Press, 2005), Our Time: The Time of Modernity as the Time of Tradition. Kinesis, (Fall 2004): L ermeneutica, la storia e il futuro delle nostre parole. Eidos (2004): Keeping Gadamer in Mind: Philosophical Discourse in Plato s Philebus [in Japanese]. Human Ontology, vol.10 (2004). Interpreting Tradition. The Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 34, 3 (October 2003): Gadamer's Plato and the Task of Philosophy, in Gadamer verstehen/understanding Gadamer, ed. Wischke and Hofer (Darmstadt: WBG, 2003), From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics and Beyond: The Transformations of Hermeneutics After Phenomenology, in Kunst, Hermeneutik, Philosophie: Das Denken Hans-Georg Gadamer im Zusammenhang des 20. Jahrhundrets, ed. István M. Fehér (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003), Shared Life. Symposium, vol. 6, 2 (Fall 2002): In Memoriam: Hans-Georg Gadamer ( ). Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 35, 3 (July 2002): Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Art of the Appearing Word. Studia Phenomenologica, vol. 2, nos. 1-2 (2002): Phronesis as Kairological Event. Epoche, new series vol. 7, 1 (Fall 2002): In the Shadow of Hegel: Infinite Dialogue in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. Research in Phenomenology, vol. 32 (2002): Truth in Time and History: Hermeneutics and the Truth that Strikes Back, in Between the Human and the Divine: Philosophical and Theological Hermeneutics, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski (Toronto: Hermeneutics Press, 2002), After the Hermeneutic Turn. Research in Phenomenology, vol. 30 (2000): From Concept to Word: The Radicality of Philosophical Hermeneutics. Continental Philosophy Review, Special Issue: Hans-Georg Gadamer Centennial Celebration, vol. 33, 3 (July 2000): Die Metaphorik des Sprechens, in Hermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten, ed. Günter Figal, Jean Grondin und Dennis Schmidt (Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2000), Roland Barthes, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 1998), Hermeneutics Between Gadamer and Heidegger. Philosophy Today, vol. 41 (Supplement 1997):

5 JAMES C. RISSER 5 PUBLICATIONS (cont.) Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Question of Community. Existentia, vol. VI-VII ( ), Reprinted in Interrogating the Tradition, ed. John Sallis and Charles Scott (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000), The Voice of the Other in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, in The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, LLP, ed. Lewis Hahn (LaSalle: Open Court, 1997), The Imaging of Truth in Philosophical Hermeneutics, in Phenomenology, Interpretation, and Community. Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, vol. 19, ed. Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen H. Watson (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996), Self-Portrait as Self-Image, in Van Gogh 100: Papers from the Centenary Conference at Hofstra University, ed. Joseph D. Masheck (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996), Hermeneutics of the Possible: On Finitude and Truth in Philosophical Hermeneutics, in The Specter of Relativism: Truth, Dialogue, and Phronesis in Philosophical Hermeneutics, ed. Lawrence K. Schmidt, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995), Reason's Entanglement, in The Path of Archaic Thinking: Unfolding the Work of John Sallis, ed. Kenneth Maly, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), Poetic Dwelling in Gadamer's Hermeneutics. Philosophy Today, vol. 38, no. 4 (Winter 1994): The Remembrance of Truth: The Truth of Remembrance, in Hermeneutics and Truth, ed. Brice Wachterhauser, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994), Communication and the Prose of the World: the Question of Language in Gadamer and Merleau-Ponty, in Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Perspective, ed. Patrick Burke and Jan Van der Veken (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), Siting Order at the Limits of Construction: Deconstructing Architectural Place. Research in Phenomenology, vol. 22 (1992): The Ontology of Hermeneutics. ellipsis, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 1991): Reading the Text. Continental Philosophy IV: Gadamer and Hermeneutics, ed. Hugh Silverman (New York: Routledge, 1991), Reading Nietzsche. Man and World: An International Review, vol. 23 (1990): Two Faces of Socrates: Gadamer/Derrida, in Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer- Derrida Encounter, ed. Diane Michelfelder and Richard Palmer (Albany: SUNY Press, 1989), To Forget to Forget: Hermeneutics & Artificial Intelligence. LOGOS, vol. 7 (1986): Hermeneutic Experience and Memory: Rethinking Knowledge as Recollection. Research in Phenomenology, vol. 16 (1986): Rorty's Pragmatism as Hermeneutic Praxis. The Modern Schoolman, vol.63, no. 4, (May 1986): Nietzsche's View of Philosophical Style, A Reply. International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 17 (1985): The Disappearance of the Text: Nietzsche's Double Hermeneutic. Research in Phenomenology, vol. 15 (1985): Practical Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Social Life. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 58, (1984):

6 JAMES C. RISSER 6 PUBLICATIONS (cont.) D. Book Reviews A Century of Philosophy: A Conversation with Riccardo Dottori, by Hans-Georg Gadamer. Human Studies, vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2006). Ricoeur as Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity, by Richard Cohen and James Marsh, eds. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (on-line journal). (With Burt Hopkins) Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience by Pierre Keller. European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2 (August 2001). The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art by Stephen David Ross. Ethics (January, 1998). Truth, Fiction, and Literature by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olson. Review of Metaphysics, March Hermeneutics and Education by Shaun Gallagher. International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 28, 2 (1996). The Ubiquity of the Finite by Dennis Schmidt. International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 24, 1 (1992). Postmodern Sophistications by David Kolb. Bates: The Alumni Magazine, November Hermeneutics at the End of Metaphysics. Review article on Radical Hermeneutics, by John D. Caputo. Research in Phenomenology, vol. 20 (1990): Reason in the Age of Science by Hans-Georg Gadamer. Canadian Philosophical Reviews, vol. 4, 6 (December 1984). The Basic Problems of Phenomenology by Martin Heidegger. Phenomenology Information Bulletin, vol. 6 (1982). Heidegger and Sartre Revisited. Review article on Heidegger's Existential Analytic, ed. Frederick Elliston, and Jean-Paul Sartre Contemporary Approaches to His Philosophy, ed. Hugh Silverman and Frederick Elliston. Research in Phenomenology, vol. 12 (1982): E. Translations Translation of Werner Marx's Die Dialektik and die Rolle des Phaenomenologen, Owl of Minerva, quarterly journal of the Hegel Society of America, December Redaction of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Practical Philosophy as a Model of the Human Sciences in Research in Phenomenology, vol. 9 (1979). PRESENTATIONS A. Conference Presentations Hermeneutics and the Idea of Effective History. Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Memphis, TN, October Logos, for example. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July Ethical Hermeneutics. Conference on The Idioms of Ethical Life, Pennsylvania State University, October Hermeneutic Considerations for Understanding Music. North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Texas A&M University, September Can Music Be Interpreted? International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July 2016.

7 JAMES C. RISSER 7 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) Re-thinking the Relation Between Humanitas and Animalitas after Heidegger. Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, Taipei, Taiwan, March Sensible Humanism. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July On the Phenomenon of Silence in the Work of (Poetic) Language. Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Södertörn University, Stockholm, April Identity in Global Communication: The Otherness of Florence. Conference on Transnational Florence, Gonzaga-in-Florence, Italy, February The Art of the Example in Plato s Statesman. Conference on Plato s Statesman, Boston College, November Image and Imagination in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. Pacific Association for Continental Thought, Loyola Marymount University, October The Place of Imagination in Philosophical Hermeneutics. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July Heidegger s Ethics of History (with reference to Agamben). North Texas Heidegger Symposium, University of Dallas, April Also presented, The Heidegger Circle, St. Petersburg, May Sensuous Knowing in Kant s Aesthetics. Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, Santa Barbara, March Also presented, European Society for Aesthetics, Dublin, June The Humanities as the Art of Imagination. Conference on The Capacity for Renaissance, Gonzaga-in-Florence, Italy, February Response /Current Research Book Session. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene, OR, October The Journey of Philosophy: The Significance of the Concluding Myth in Plato s Republic. The Last Chapter Conference, Lehigh University, October Response to Author Meets Critics Session, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, DePaul University, September The Ethics of History. Collegium Phenomenologicum, Cittá di Castello, Italy, July Locating Shared Life in the Thou : Historical and Thematic Considerations. International Conference: Discovering the We, University College Dublin, Dublin, May Historicity as Effective History. International Conference: The Phenomenon of History, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, April A (New) Paradigm for Hermeneutics. International Conference: Interpreting Philosophical Classics: East-West, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, February Paradigms and Models in Plato s Sophist. Workshop on Plato s Sophist, Seattle University, November th Gadamer and Levinas: A Discussion. 10 Annual Psychology Conference for the Other, Seattle University, November Tragic Wisdom, Tragic Silence. International Workshop: Phenomenology and the Philosophies of the Tragic, University of Crete, Greece, June The Word of Silence. Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, San Diego, March The Silence of Beginning. Conference on Word and Silence, Gonzaga-in-Florence, Italy, February A New Paradigm for Hermeneutics (keynote address). North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Boston College, September 2011.

8 JAMES C. RISSER 8 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) The Exemplarity of the Beautiful. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Cittá di Castello, Italy, July Plato s Paradigm for Hermeneutics. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July On the Threefold Sense of Mimesis in Republic X. Ancient Philosophy Society, Sundance Utah, April On Freedom in Another Sense. Ethics, Indifference, and Social Concern, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, April On the Paradigmatic Character of Comparative Philosophy. Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, Cork, Ireland, March Where Do We Find Words for What We Cannot Say? On Language and Experience in the Understanding of Life (keynote address). International Human Sciences Research Conference, Seattle University, August The Lateness of Arrival in the Event of Understanding. International Symposium,Universität Freiburg, Germany, July Hermeneutics and Dialectics: Gadamer s Appropriation of Plato. Conference on Phenomenology and Ancient Greek Philosophy, Rethymnon, Greece, June Hermeneutic Experience and the Demands of Interpretation: On Beginnings. International Conference: Gegenständlichkeit und Objektivität, Univ. Freiburg, Germany, May Mimesis and the Imaginary. Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle. Honolulu, April On the Imperceptible. Conference on the Imaginary, Gonzaga-in-Florence, Italy, February Also presented, Western Phenomenology Conference, San Francisco, April On the Simplicity and Humility of Philosophy in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. Workshop on Contemporary Philosophy, Boston College, October Finding the Measure of Reason in Gadamer s (Platonic) Hermeneutics. International Conference: Phronetic Rationality, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, October On The Hermeneutics of Hermeneutic Phenomenology. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July Beyond the Letter. Conference on Philosophy and Literature, Gonzaga-in-Florence, Italy, February The Flash of Beauty. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, October Also presented, Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, Asilomar, CA, April Hermeneutics and the Linguisticality of the Christian Word. Christian Reasoning Colloquium, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, October How Can We Understand the Pre-Modern Past? A Hermeneutic Discourse (keynote address). Conference on Pre-Modernity, Sigtuna, Sweden, August Ideality, Memory, and the Written Word. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July Discourse, Dialectic, and the Art of Weaving. Ancient Philosophy Society, New School for Social Research, April The Incapacity of Language. British Society for Phenomenology, Oxford University, England, April 2008.

9 JAMES C. RISSER 9 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) Forming a Life With-One-another: Hermeneutics and the Promise of Community. Conference on The Problem of the Other in Contemporary and Traditional Philosophy, Gonzaga-in- Florence, Italy, February The Fabric of Life. North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Villanova University, September Distressed Memory: The Character of Understanding in Disposition and Exile. North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Gordon College, June Also presented, International Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July The Movement of Language. Conference on Truth and Language in Hermeneutic Philosophy, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January The Unfulfilled Word. Conference on Phenomenology and Transcendence, University of Nottingham, England, September Hermeneutics, Language, Finitude. International URAM Society, Regis College, Toronto, August The Community of Memory in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. Gadamer y Las Humanidades: Encuentro internacional, UNAM, Mexico, November Wishful Thinking: The Demand of Freedom in Kant s Critique of Judgment. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Cittá di Castello, Italy, July Our Time: The Time of Tradition as the Time of Modernity. Keynote speaker, Building th Bridges: 6 Annual Graduate Student Conference, SIU Carbondale, November Hermeneutics as Convalescence. André Schuwer Lecture, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, November Hermeneutics Between Heidegger and Gadamer (II): Recollection in a History of Loss." International Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July Comments to Does philosophical hermeneutics surreptitiously appeal to immediate presence?. American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December Keeping in Mind: Philosophical Discourse in Plato s Philebus. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Cittá di Castello, Italy, July Gadamer s Plato and the Texture of the Appearing Word. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Hermeneutics in The Time of Memory. Conference on Postmodern Ethics, Brock University, February Truth in Time and History: Hermeneutics and the Truth that Strikes Back. 4 Annual Faith th and Reason Conference, St. John Vianney College Seminary, Feb Also presented, First International Conference on Hermeneutics, St. Bonaventure University, May On the Difference Between Inauthentic and Authentic Historicality. Eastern Division meeting of The American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December Phronesis as Kairological Event: Gadamer s Re-appropriation of Aristotle s Phronesis. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Infinite Dialogue. Eastern Division meeting of The American Philosophical Association, New York, December From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics and Beyond: The Transformations of Hermeneutics After Phenomenology. International conference: Kunst, Hermeneutik, Philosophie, Eötvös- Universität Budapest, Hungary, October 2000.

10 JAMES C. RISSER 10 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) What s Mine? Whose Other?: Gadamer, Levinas, and the Issue of Sociality. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, June Hermeneutics and the Resistance of Difference. International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July How Philosophers Make Sense. Philosophy Conference: What is Philosophy?, Seattle University, May The Function of Rhetoric in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. The Northwest Conference on Philosophy, University of Oregon, October Nietzsche, Non-Moral Truth and the Task of Philosophy. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver, October From Concept to Word: The Radicality of Philosophical Hermeneutics. International symposium: Von Wort zum Begriff, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Plato s Anti-Platonism. Philosophy Conference: Drama, Method, Doctrine, in Plato's Dialogues, Seattle University, May Hermeneutics Between Heidegger and Gadamer. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Lexington, October Hermeneutics, Parrhesia, and the Question of Public Duty. International symposium: "Rhetorik und Politik aus der Sicht der Hermeneutik," Universität Heidelberg, July1997. Nietzsche and the Task of Philosophy. Philosophy Conference: "Nietzsche's Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition," Seattle University, May Nature's Uncanniness. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July Toward the Strange: Between Gadamer and Heidegger. International symposium: Nach der Kehre: Heidegger und Gadamer, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Tragic Reason: Toward a Postmodern Notion of Reason and Community. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, October Hermeneutics of Facticity and the Question of Community. International symposium: Die Hermeneutik des Faktizität, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Poetic Dwelling in Gadamer's Hermeneutics. International symposium: Kunst als Aussage, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Heidegger, History and Everydayness, Comments. Heidegger Conference, Brigham Young University, May Words of Grace. International symposium: Verstummen Die Dichter?, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Possibilities for Cross-Cultural Understanding. American Studies Association, Costa Mesa, California, November Undoubling the Hermeneutic Circle: A Rejoinder to Stanley Rosen. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, Oct Communication Adrift: Hermeneutics at the Edge of the Breath. International symposium: Das Gespräch in der Hermeneutik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Also presented, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July "The Voice of Poetry/The Truth of the Word." Philosophy Conference Philosophy and the Voice of Poetry, State University of New York at Binghamton, April Communication and the Prose of the World: Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer on Language and Hermeneutics. International conference: Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Perspective, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, November 1991.

11 JAMES C. RISSER 11 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) Philosophical Hermeneutics and Greek Optimism. International symposium Philosophische Hermeneutik und Griechische Philosophie, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Three Questions to 'Clearing and Unconcealment'. Heidegger Conference, Vanderbilt University, May The Question of Truth in Philosophical Hermeneutics. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Villanova Univ, October Revised version presented at the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Feb The Self-portrait as Self-image in the Paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. Interdisciplinary Conference Van Gogh 100: A Centenary Conference, Hofstra University, May The Body of Thought, Comments. Interdisciplinary Conference Giving the Body Its Due, University of Oregon, November Poetic Interaction: A Philosophical Critique. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Duquesne University, October Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Therapeutic Process. Human Science Research Conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark, August The Ontology of Hermeneutics: Finitude and Truth in Gadamer's Hermeneutics. International symposium: Grundprobleme der Hermeneutik im Anschluss an Hans-Georg Gadamers Wahrheit und Methode, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Revised version presented at Villanova University, April Reading Nietzsche. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, August Image and Truth in Gadamer's Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July Reason's Entanglement. Conference on the Work of John Sallis, Galesville, May The Mirror Image in the Self-Portraits of Vincent Van Gogh. The Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis, Seattle, April Comments on Radical Hermeneutics. International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Notre Dame, April Beauty, Truth, and the Play of Image: Self-Understanding in Philosophical Hermeneutics. International Society for Philosophy and Psychotherapy, Honolulu, January Reflections on the Gadamer/Derrida Exchange. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, October The Space of Place: Architecture and Human Dwelling. International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Univ. of Kansas, April The Text as Between. International Association for Philosophy and Literature, European session, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, July Culmination(s) of Subjectivity: Heidegger on Descartes, Hegel, and Husserl. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July To Forget to Forget: Hermeneutics and Artificial Intelligence. Conference on Technology and Epistemology, University of Santa Clara, February Place: A Certain Absence, A Heideggerian Response. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, October Nietzsche's View of Philosophical Style, A Reply. The North American Nietzsche Society, San Francisco, March The Disappearance of the Text: Nietzsche's Double Hermeneutic. The Nietzsche Society, Atlanta, October 1984.

12 JAMES C. RISSER 12 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) Experience Grows by the Edges, A Reply. Conference on American Pragmatism in Relation to Continental Phenomenology, Pennsylvania State University, August Practical Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and Social Life. The American Catholic Philosophical Association, Pittsburgh, April Rorty's Misunderstanding of Hermeneutics. The Northwest Conference on Philosophy, University of Idaho, November Hermeneutics and Self-Understanding. The Northwest Society for Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Hermeneutics, Seattle, March, Heidegger and the Origin of the Work of Art, A Reply. The Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Whitman College, November Truth in Art: Gadamer's Criticism of Kant's Aesthetics. Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July Aesthetic Ideas, Symbolism, and the Role of Metaphor in Kant's Aesthetics. The Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Oregon State University, November Gadamer's Critique of Modern Aesthetic Consciousness, A Reply. Conference on the Thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Dickinson College, November B. Distinctive Guest Lectures: Hermeneutics and the Idea of Effective History. University of Oregon, October Understanding How We Understand: Language, Dialogue and Interpretation. James Madison University, March Sensible Humanism. Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University, February Hermeneutic Reflections on Understanding Difference. Goucher College, April On Language and Silence. Touchstone Lecture. Seattle University, April Also presented at CSU Stanislaus, April After Gadamer: Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and the Life of Understanding. 3 lectures. University of Buffalo, March From the Outside: Philosophy, Hermeneutics and the Life of Understanding. University of British Columbia, January Agamben and Gadamer on the Incapacity of Language. Villanova Univ., March Hermeneutics and the Incapacity of Language. DePaul University, April The Community of Memory in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. Södertörn University College, Stockholm, January Hermeneutics as Convalescence. Villanova University, October L ermeneutica, la storia e il futuro delle nostre parole. University of Rome, May Hermeneutics as Post-Enlightenment Philosophy. Seattle Pacific Univ., May The Sociality of Life in Gadamer s Hermeneutics. CSU Stanislaus, October Gadamer, Nietzsche, and the Task of Interpretation. Simon Fraser Univ., Feb The Kantian Sublime and Being at Home in Nature. Univ. of Oregon, Nov On Judgment and Time. Villanova University, February The Demands of Dialogue. Trinity Western University, April Gadamer at 100: Issues in Hermeneutics. CSU Stanislaus, March The Relevance of Philosophical Hermeneutics. Trinity Western Univ., Nov Hermeneutics Today. Green College, University of British Colombia, March 1997.

13 JAMES C. RISSER 13 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) The Question of Language in Hermeneutics and Deconstruction. St. Michael's Institute, Gonzaga University, April Philosophical Hermeneutics and Problem of Community. Gonzaga Univ., April The Speculative Element of Kantian Thought. Vanderbilt University, October Gadamer and Hermeneutics. Philosophy Honor Society, CSU Long Beach, Nov Language, Text, and Poetic Word. 3 lectures. Villanova Univ., March 31-April Self-portrait as Self-image in Paintings of Van Gogh. Whitman College, Feb From Temples to Skyscrapers. Whitman College, February Philosophical Foundations of Existential Phenomenology. Seattle Univ., Feb The Two Faces of Socrates: Gadamer/Derrida. Duquesne Univ., November In Defense of Prejudice: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics. Central Washington University Philosophy Colloquium, December C. Interviews: KING-AM, Seattle, WA, The Current State of Philosophy in American Culture, Jan 15, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Executive Committee, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Host/Organizer, North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, Seattle University, September Director, 2007 Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July, Co-organizer, International Symposium, Universität Freiburg, Germany, July 2005, July 2008, July 2010, June 2012, July 2015, July Executive Co-Director, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Co-organizer, International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Seattle University, October Director, 1997 Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July, Advisory Book Selection Committee, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, ; Committee Chair, Chair, Local Arrangements, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Seattle, Washington, September Career Opportunities Committee, American Philosophical Association, Co-organizer of the International Hermeneutics Symposium, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, July, Secretary-convener, Heidegger Conference, Seattle Univ., May Director, 1989 Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July nd Program Committee, 62 American Catholic Philosophical Association, April Program Chair, Nietzsche Society, October Director, Western Phenomenology Conference (meets in conjunction with the Pacific APA), June present. Co-founder and Secretary, Northwest Society for Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Hermeneutics, April 1981-present. Executive Committee and Program Chair, Northwest Conference on Philosophy, November 1981.

14 JAMES C. RISSER 14 SELECTED SERVICE: SEATTLE UNIVERSITY A. University University Rank and Tenure, University Core Policy Board, Academic Council, Evening College Advisory Board, Faculty Senate, B. College & Department College of Arts and Sciences, College Assembly, Executive Council, College of Arts and Sciences, Rank and Tenure Committee, , College of Arts and Sciences, Executive Committee, ; ; University Honors Program, Director, ; Matteo Ricci College, Executive Committee, ; Philosophy Department, Department Chair, ; Spring 2004 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARDS///REVIEW WORK Studies in Continental Thought, Indiana University Press (since 2015) Philosophy Today (since 2014) Analecta Hermeneutica (since 2006) Continental Philosophy Review (since 2005) Epoche (since 2004) The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (since 2001) Research in Phenomenology, Associate Editor (since 2000) Reviewer for NEH Conference Grants, NEH Summer Fellowships, NEH Translation Grants; Blackwell Publishers, Bloomsbury Publishing, Brill, Columbia Univ. Press, Indiana Univer. Press, Lexington Books, McGraw Hill Publishers, Northwestern Univ. Press, Ohio Univ. Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, Routledge, Springer, St. Martin's Press, Stanford Univ. Press, SUNY Press, Univ. of Notre Dame Press; Comparative Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, Dialogue, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, International Yearbook for Hermeneutics, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Metaphilosophy, Mosaic, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Polity, Religions. RECENT THESES SUPERVISION/COMMITTEES 2017 PhD: The Platonic Origin of Hans-Georg Gadamer s Philosophical Hermeneutics, Christopher Gibson, University of Ottawa. External examiner MA: Interpreting Auditory Verbal Hallucinations, Pavan Brar, Seattle University. Supervisor PhD: Self and Tradition: Historical Understanding and Social Life in Gadamer, Jerome Veith, Boston College. External examiner PhD: Hermeneutics and the Reconstitution of Universal Memory, Jeffrey Simms, University of Toronto. External examiner.

15 JAMES C. RISSER 15 HONORARY APPOINTMENTS///AWARDS Senior Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Communications Arts/Western Sydney University, Scholar-in-Residence, Silverman Phenomenology Center/Duquesne University, Philosophy Research Fellowship, Seattle University, 2015, College of Arts & Sciences Research Fellowship, Seattle University, ASSU Outstanding Faculty Award, Seattle University, Philosophy Endowed Chair, Seattle University, 2002, College of Arts & Sciences Research Fellowship, Seattle University, 1999, Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Seattle University Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, Seattle University, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1997.